American inventor Royal Rife (his real name), in 1934, cured 14 "terminal" cancer patients and hundreds of animal cancers by aiming his "beam ray"
at what he called the "cancer virus." So why isn't the Rife Ray in use today? Barry Lynes, in his 1987 book The Cancer Cure That Worked, details
how Rife's invention was discredited by Morris Fishbein, the director of the American Medical Association (AMA), after his offers to buy a share of
the technology were rebuffed, although this has never been proven and the AMA has denied it. A 1953 U.S. Senate special investigation concluded that
Fishbein and the AMA had conspired with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to suppress various alternative cancer treatments that conflicted with
the AMA's pre-determined view that "radium, x-ray therapy and surgery are the only recognized treatments for cancer."

I didn’t say it causes suicide someone else said that. I do think that people should get tested for this regularly and especially before people jump
on the antidepressant bandwagon. If this is as prevalent in people as the studies say then I think that there is a good chance that many people that
suffer from depression are only treating the symptoms with anti-depressants when there is a possibility they could be cured with killing the cause
which may be these parasites.

I just read this in a science magazine I have a subscription to. It seems more like sci-Fi but is actually sci-fact. These little parasites can infect
your brain and alter your psychology and from reports are fairly common in humans. About 1 in 4 people in the United States is reportedly infected
with these buggers.

Parasites that sneak into the brain may alter your behavior and health

In the United States, almost one in four residents over the age of 12 has the infection. In other parts of the world, rates are as high as 95
percent. An unlucky minority of these infected people become quite ill. Most, however, don’t even know that their muscles and brains carry the
parasite.

“Where science meets science fiction” is how Michael Dickinson of the University of Washington in Seattle describes studies of parasites that hack
into their hosts’ nervous systems. The Journal of Experimental Biology, where Dickinson serves as an editor, dedicated its Jan. 1 issue to this
emerging field, dubbed “neuroparasitology.” In those pages and elsewhere, clues to T. gondii’s bizarre biology are emerging. And growing
evidence suggests that the hidden parasite may have visible effects.

Studies comparing the infected and the noninfected raise the possibility that the parasite tweaks a person’s personality or ups the risk of
suicide attempts, brain cancer and schizophrenia. Studies in people even report links between T. gondii and traffic accidents, greater odds of having
sons than daughters, extra height and unusual opinions about the smell of urine.

If so much of what people do turns out to have a touch of parasite about it, then the notion of normal human behavior may have to change. What is
“routine” for people might need to encompass not just the activities of a Homo sapiens by itself, but also the doings of Homo sapiens as a walking
ecosystem where microbes and mammal intermingle.

I have already decided I am going to send off for the test to see if I am infected but I believe the safest route to getting rid of them if I test
positive will be taking the anti-malarial medication. I don’t know that I trust electronics to zap parasites in my body that doesn’t sound safe
and the research I have done on this so far hasn’t endorsed that method.

From what I have read this is a common parasite which you are probably more likely to catch from eating produce. The media had demonized cats at one
point unfairly on the issue because it made a better story. Many other animals carry the parasite but cats catch it from killing rodents that are
infected. I have indoor cats but I travel around the world a lot in many countries where things like that are more prevalent so my chances are
probably high that I am infected.

The issue I think as a society we should look at on this matter is the possibility that many people who are infected are being treated for depression
when they could be cured by killing the parasites. There is a risk involved when taking anti-malarial medication but it is one which I am willing to
take. I take them when traveling third world countries anyway but from what I read they need to be taken with additional medication to kill the
parasite.

I have had problems with depression but I cannot take antidepressants because I have been diagnosed as bi polar. Anti-depressants can make me
psychotic which is a lesson that has been learned the hard way for me.That is actually a serious health issue in itself where people have been
misdiagnosed for depression when they are actually bi-polar. In my case it is very mild the bi polar and I handle it with meditation and keeping
myself in check when I start to get upset over something. Simply knowing that what I am feeling will pass soon helps calm me down. I wasn’t
diagnosed with it until my mid 30s and at first it upset me but when I accepted it I looked back on my life and it explained a lot. However if I am
infected with these parasites then that would explain something’s as well and getting rid of them could greatly improve my life. I have a bleak
outlook on life more than most people but as I explained I am not a candidate for anti-depressants like others.

What I find aggravating is how the medical profession hand out scripts for mind altering medication like anti-depressant to so many people that is
considered the norm in society and even though I just found out about this issue with parasites it has been common knowledge in the medical community
for years. I think being tested for this should be protocol before anyone is prescribed things like anti-depressants and should be what good doctors
do. It makes me wonder if big pharm has suppressed these studies from the public because if my hunch on this is correct then a good portion of people
who are taking things like antidepressants wouldn’t need to if they got rid of the infection but that would cut into big pharms profits. So I guess
I am on the right website because I would call that a conspiracy.

I appreciate the alternative but it doesn’t say that it kills T. gondii. It is nice to have natural alternatives at our disposal but I am going to
go with the method that has the most success and has been proven to work.

I like natural remedies for things but this is something that I want to be positive will work.

I don’t know if I am even infected but the chances are high that I am. I will be sending off for the test kit this week. If I test positive I will
then get the medication.

I will update the thread on my experience with this issue and if I am a carrier I will let everyone know how it goes and if I notice a difference
after I get rid of the buggers.

In Ayurveda, a traditional Indian form of medicine, neem figures into treatments for many ailments, including intestinal and other types of parasites.

Here's a more scientific explanation that addresses the specific issue:

Melia azedarach (cinnamon) and Azadirachta indica (neem) have a variety of biologically active ingredients against virus, bacteria and protozoan
parasites; however, little is known about their action on Toxoplasma gondii intracellular development. Toxoplasma gondii infects all eukaryotic cells,
where it establishes and multiplies inside a modified vacuole called the parasitophorous vacuole until the cell ruptures, re-infecting other cells and
establishing the infection. There are no efficient chemotherapies for the elimination of T. gondii, minimizing side effects. In this study, we
performed in vitro assays with neem and cinnamon aqueous extracts against the intracellular development of T. gondii tachyzoites. After treatment with
neem and cinnamon for 24 h, the percentage of infected cells and the number of intracellular parasites drastically decreased. This effect was
concentration-dependent. During the incubation of the extracts, progressive morphological and ultrastructure alterations led to intense vesiculation
and complete elimination of the parasite from the intracellular medium. However, during the treatment with extracts, no morphological effects were
observed in the structure of the host cell. These results suggest that the aqueous extracts of neem and cinnamon were capable of interfering with and
eliminating the intracellular development of Toxoplasma gondii.

OK. That is an interesting study. It says it needs to be taken with cinnamon. The study didn’t mention that they did any human trial but they did it
with cultures. I am definitely interested but I am cautious about the correct dosage and how to obtain it in the right quantity. I just did a
preliminary search on the web but didn’t find those answers. I don’t really trust myself with mixing my own and I have had problems before when
ordering supplements where some places don’t have any quality control. Like I said I am interested but I want to be sure before trying that method.
Whichever rout I go I want to be sure it works.

Like I have said I am not even sure that I am infected but I think my chances are extremely high because of the places I travel. Do you have any other
information on this or where to obtain it that is trustworthy?

I've been a cat owner/wrangler for years and have been scratched uncountable times. I'll bet I have it! Don't know if this was mentioned, but a
more immediate threat/concern is so-called Cat Scratch Fever. I get this whenever I get scratched by one of my pets and don't think to treat the
scratches with rubbing alcohol. Now I'm not a doctor or a scientist, but I have come to correlate the scratches with the illness. It's like a cold
in that it causes a fever only with no other symptoms, except that sometimes I get fearful and paranoid for no reason. I think that's related to the
fever. It clears up in a few days.

Originally posted by stirling
My cat pickd me out and simply moved in.....hmmmmmmmm.......
I have been feeding it and caring for it since as well.......hmmmmmmmmmm
Ya dont think?
Naaw thats too far out.........
but maybe.........

I believe that's true. Over the years I have come to believe that a cat chooses its owner and place to live. A coworker told me the other day of the
death of his cat. She was about 17 years old. He said that when she was a kitten she tarried around his front door for days until he let her in,
despite his trying to discourage her. I recently realized when I found my giant orange tomcat by the road (he was a tiny kitten then) he chose the
moment when I passed to start meowing in his little squeaky kitten way, so I would pick him up. They can "sniff out" cat lovers.

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